Improvement in whips



A. F. GERALD.

WHIPS.

No. 193,864. :azentedAu 7,1877.

M1} in Qif'j 6W g m/W I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS F. GERALD, OF AUGUSTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOTHAM P.NORTON, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,864, dated August 71877; application filed March 19, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMos F. GERALD, of Augusta, in the county ofKennebec and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Whips, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification, reference being bad 'to the accompanying drawing.

The object of my invention is to furnish a substitute for Whalebone inwhips, and to make a whip which shall be strong, heavy, elastic, anddurable, and very cheap to manufacture.

In the drawing, which is a sectional view of a whip with my inventionapplied, A is the outside or covering of the whip. B is the rattan orother substance usually used in whips.

O O, &c., are small spring-wires, made of brass, iron, steel, or othersuitable metal, and running entirely or part way through the center ofthe whip.

The whipis constructed in the ordinary manner, with the exception of thesubstitution of wire for whalebone or other material to strengthen thewhip and make it elastic and heavy.

The wire is made or can be made either round, square, or of any shapewhich is convenient for use, and may be twisted singly, or the wholebundle of wire may be twisted to give strength to the whip.

The number of wires at or near the butt-end of the whip corresponds toor is governed by the size of the Whip to be made, and as the whipdecreases in size the wires decrease in number or size (as they may bemade smaller at one end than the other) until at the other end there isbut one or more wires.

The wire is spring-wire, that will not break, and will, after beingbent, spring into position and keep the whip straight.

. The wire, if necessary, may be covered With rubber or other materialto protect it from moisture and rust.

I claim A whip having a core composed of a number of small Wires, thewires being greater in number or larger in size at the butt, anddecreasing in number toward the tip.

AMOS F. GERALD.

Witnesses:

W. S. OHOATE, CHAS. W. CLEMENT.

